Richard Vijgen is an artist and designer whose work focuses on artistic data visualization. He creates multi-sensorial data experiences that visualize the invisible technological dimensions of reality. https://www.richardvijgen.nl
reversediffusion.xyz – A reversed perspective on generative AI
Reversediffusion.xyz visualizes how AI-generated images emerge from a complex mathematical space built on millions of human-created training images. By zooming in on this space as a context for everything the model produces, it provides a reversed...
Electric Atmospheres – Ethereal architecture of urban datascapes
In collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Altair Engineering, Richard Vijgen simulates the behaviour of the electromagnetic cloud from a single cell-phone in different urban environments and visualize how the electromagnetic wa...
Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom
Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CP...
The Case for a Small Language Model – Generative AI and Authorship
The Case for a Small Language Model is a speculative AI installation inspired by the work of Dutch composer and poet Rozalie Hirs. The installation shows the entire book printed on five 30 meter long strips of labelprinter paper that scroll in bot...
Eternal Blue – Invisible digital dimensions of reality
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'Eternal Blue' is an installation at the University of Maastricht (NL) that visualises tens of thousands of malicious packets caught by the University’s firewall as they happen.
Through Artificial Eyes – The inevitable cultural perspectives of NNs
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'Through Artificial Eyes' is an interactive installation that lets the audience look at 558 episodes of VPRO Tegenlicht (Dutch Future Affairs Documentary series) through the eyes of a computer vision Neural Network.
Hertzian Landscapes – The interactive space of a radio spectrum
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'Hertzian Landscapes' is a live visualization of the radio spectrum. It includes a digital receiver to scan large swaths of radio spectrum in near real-time and using Three.js visualises thousands of signals into a panor...
WiFi Impressionist – City as an electromagnetic landscape
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'WiFi Impressionist' is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.
The Architecture of Radio – Visualizing the invisible architecture of networks
Created by Richard Vijgen, The Architecture of Radio is a site-specific iPad application that visualizes this network of networks by reversing the ambient nature of the infosphere; hiding the visible while revealing the invisible technological lan...
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